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WILMINGTON RACE RIOT DRAFT REPORT OFFERS REVELATIONS

December 8, 2005

RALEIGH - Dec. 8 2005 (RUSHPRNEWS) - The public will get a first look at a 600 page draft report, including appendices, that examines the conditions leading up to and the consequences of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot on Thursday, Dec. 15, at 11 a.m. at Thalian Hall in Wilmington. The riot took place in an era when similar violent attacks on black communities by white mobs occurred in Atlanta, Tulsa and Rosewood, Fla. In Wilmington, in a move unparalleled in U.S. history, a coup d’etat replaced the city’s duly elected officeholders with white supremacists. An unknown number of blacks were killed. Read more

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